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Republican demands answers from FBI director — then shuts him down as he tries to respond

FBI Director Chris Wray appeared before Congress Wednesday when he faced off against Jan. 6 conspiracy theories espoused by Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA).

Referring to "ghost buses," Higgins sat with a giant poster of a bus terminal behind him and complained that there is a "tremendous amount of evidence" suggesting that undercover FBI agents were sent into D.C. on Jan. 6 to incite insurrectionists.

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'No consequences': 'The View' hosts complain Congress is never treated like a regular job

Co-hosts of "The View" addressed the fights that surfaced in Congress on Tuesday, asking why Washington D.C. isn't treated like every other place of work where people aren't allowed to behave that way.

The most notable scrap Tuesday involved Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), who threatened to start a fistfight with the president of the Teamsters union.

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'I'm gonna bite': GOP Senator refuses to back down after challenging witness to fight

Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin (OK) nearly got into a fight with a hearing witness at the U.S. Capitol Tuesday, and he's refusing to back down.

When Teamsters President Sean O'Brien appeared before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing, to review how unions help working families Mullin, who is from a Right to Work state and has long been a critic of unions, offered to fight him on the house floor.

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A 'hurricane of stupid' slammed into Capitol Hill this week: D.C. insider

A veteran congressional reporter despaired at the "hurricane of stupid" he witnessed Tuesday on Capitol Hill.

Among the documented atrocities: Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) apparently shoved Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN), who had voted to oust him as House speaker; Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) threatened to fight Teamsters president Sean O’Brien in the middle of a hearing; and Rep. James Comer (R-KY) called Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) a "liar" and a "smurf" after he questioned his family business dealings.

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'Can't believe I just saw that': Reporter recounts moment McCarthy shoved GOP lawmaker

A reporter reacted to a physical altercation she witnessed between Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and a Republican congressman who voted to oust him as House speaker.

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) claims the California Republican elbowed him in the kidneys as he walked past him Tuesday in a Capitol Hill hallway, and NPR's Claudia Grisales told MSNBC's "Morning Joe" that she saw it happen.

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'Conspiracy theory wack job': Piers Morgan doesn't hold back on Marjorie Taylor Greene

British TV host Piers Morgan has long been a vocal admirer of Donald Trump and his presidency, but that doesn't appear to extend to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who spoke on his show Tuesday evening in the UK.

The debate began with Morgan bringing up accusations against Greene that she purports to support Israel while being anti-Semitic. He specifically mentioned the "Jewish Space Laser" conspiracy that she's been tied to — blaming them for Californian wildfires.

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'You look like a Smurf!' James Comer erupts after he's called out on dealings with brother

Rep. James Comer (R-KY) angrily rejected questions during a House Oversight Committee meeting Tuesday about his business dealings involving his brother.

Reporting earlier this month showed the Kentucky Republican and his brother had engaged in land swaps involving their family farming business, which Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) mockingly compared to Comer's allegations last week about business transactions involving President Joe Biden and his brother.

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Alyssa Farah Griffin reveals Mark Meadows told her Trump wasn't leaving the White House

"The View's" Alyssa Farah Griffin confirmed Tuesday that she was told while working as a White House aide that Donald Trump wasn't going to leave after 2020.

Trump's former lawyer Jenna Ellis revealed in an interview to the Fulton County district attorney's office — revealed by ABC News Monday — that an excited White House aide had told her that they weren't leaving on Jan. 20 when Joe Biden was inaugurated.

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Trump is 'near the end' so he's 'upping the shock value': Morning Joe

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough called out Donald Trump's increasingly "extreme" rhetoric as a desperate ploy for attention, but he said that language will ultimately doom him in next year's election.

The former president in the past week called his political opponents "vermin," in a clear echo of language used by Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, and threatened to lock up law enforcement officials in mental institutions as punishment for investigating him, and the "Morning Joe" host called that talk a sign of desperation.

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'Americans need to see this!' Morning Joe calls for TV in Trump trial

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough called for Donald Trump's election subversion trial to be televised, but a legal expert said there are obstacles to putting cameras inside a federal courtroom.

Special counsel Jack Smith's office filed a motion rejecting an argument by Trump's attorneys to televise the trial, which had been requested by a consortium of media organizations, and a "Morning Joe" panel debated how and why the courtroom proceedings could be broadcast.

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Jenna Ellis' timeline sinks Donald Trump's case: legal analyst

A pair of legal experts on Monday night argued that the timeline presented by former Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis' testimony paints a damning portrait of former President Donald Trump's mindset.

Ellis testified to prosecutors after her guilty plea that the former president intended to stay in the White House at all costs, according to what an aide told her.

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Trump thinks genies come out of boxes because his can't afford lamps: Leslie Jones

Donald Trump's genie flub got filleted during Monday's episode of "The Daily Show," with guest star Leslie Jones.

The former president appeared in a sit-down interview with Univision's Enrique Acevedo at Mar-a-Lago to discuss his claim that President Joe Biden has weaponized the Department of Justice.

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'Break Virginia into 2 states': Conservative after GOP loses elections

A right-wing activist is calling for Virginia to be broken in half. Not to be confused with West Virginia.

The concept was flirted with by Mark Meckler, a right-wing activist and president of the Convention of States Foundation, following the GOP setbacks at the ballot box in the Commonwealth. He was disheartened by what he sees as “Washington D.C. spilling out all over northern Virginia."

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